Telyn Tales

Do golf courses need a revamp?

This episode reviews the history of golf from Scotland to the United States, highlighting the sport's societal impacts of racism and sexism, particularly with country clubs. Further, the environmental impacts of golf courses are all tied together with the tidy & clean American Dream, or illusion, dare I say.

References:

https://www.ngf.org/golf-industry-research/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.630558/full

https://www.cartbarn.com/blog/what-is-the-history-of-the-golf-cart--48038

https://www.theringer.com/2021/4/7/22370057/golf-diversity-issues-history-pga-lpga-the-masters

https://www.top100golfcourses.com/golf-course/burning-tree-club

http://montgomeryhistory.org/pdf/46-4.pdf

https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=ur

https://www.golfpass.com/travel-advisor/articles/grass-over-garbage-golf-courses-give-landfill-sites-a-second-life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/12/07/golf-courses-multiplying-on-formerly-unusable-landfills/9d1e97d4-77ab-4230-9d20-605b99053b23/

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Main topic begins at 9:42.

Discussion includes: -a forest soundscape

-initial tree observations

-hot take on "hiking", industrial aesthetics, and farm-to-table restaurants

-history of tree hugging

-tree folklore

-spread of religion with pomegranates/forbidden fruit

-cognitive benefits from trees

-trees do more (and I mean WAY more) than just capture C02

-can trees solve the gen z identity crisis?

References:

MAGAN, MANCHAN. Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies beneath Us. GILL BOOKS, 2022. 

(TRN), Mancuso, Stefano/ Viola, Alessandra/ Pollan, Michael (FRW)/ Benham, Joan. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence. Island Pr, 2018. 

https://womensearthalliance.org/wea-voices/the-original-tree-huggers-let-us-not-forget-their-sacrifice-on-earth-day/

https://www.villagesquare.in/khejri-the-wonder-tree-of-thar-desert/#:~:text=The%20Khejri%20leaves%2C%20locally%20called,thrive%20on%20the%20khejri%20tree.

https://www.britannica.com/plant/pomegranate

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/02/Golden-Pome/#:~:text=In%20Mycenean%20and%20later%20Greek,Western%20border%20of%20the%20world.

https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-new-world/indian-creation-stories/

https://time.com/5733954/climate-change-whale-trees/

https://www.fs.usda.gov/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr151/psw_gtr151_09_franco.pdf

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What is self empathy and why do we need it?

Tune in to see how Aristotle defined self love, how we compare it to today's concept of self empathy, and how we can apply self empathy to better ourselves within a divided and isolated community.

Topics include processing traumatic memories, moral injury from the 2020 pandemic, Arthur Brooks on loving our enemies, my personal & vulnerable confession of contempt, the Wisconsin Empathy Project chapter at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, applying self empathy in light of informal OCD diagnosis.

*Note - I am not a psychologist or expert on this topic*

References

Brooks, A. C. (2019). Love your enemies: How decent people can save America from the culture 

of contempt. Broadside Books.

Neff, K.D., Dahm, K.A. (2015). Self-compassion: What it Is, what it does, and how it relates to 

mindfulness. In: Ostafin, B., Robinson, M., Meier, B. (eds) Handbook of mindfulness and 

self-regulation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2263-5_10

Sherman, N. (2014). Recovering lost goodness: Shame, guilt, and self-empathy. Psychoanalytic 

Psychology, 07369735, 20140401, 31, 2.

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Ever wonder if that strange, coincidental, yet meaningful interaction with an animal meant something more? What if I told you there is scientific basis for purposeful coincidence?

The theory of synchronicity, backed up with quantum mechanics, connects each coincidence and supernatural scenario of your life to form one massive and important storyline. And that one animal that you feel spiritually connected to? Its folkloric history may reveal more than you could imagine about who you are and what your purpose is.

I specifically discuss my personal connection with the rabbit and how my experiences seamlessly integrate with rabbit and hare folklore.

Tangents include: pronunciation of "telyn", quantum entanglement, starling murmuration, three hares motif, bad omens for a wedding, the integration of living systems, creating the best capitalistic system with synchronicity of the human animal, the garden giving birth to me

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physics. Scientific American. Retrieved March 28, 2023, from 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/explorers-of-quantum-entanglement-win-202

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Caltech Faculty. (2023). What is entanglement and why is it important? Caltech Science 

Exchange. Retrieved March 29, 2023, from 

https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/quantum-science-explained/entanglement 

Chinese Language Institute. (2023, January 23). Year of the rabbit: The complete guide: Chinese 

zodiac. CLI. Retrieved March 28, 2023, from 

https://studycli.org/chinese-zodiac/year-of-the-rabbit/ 

Cluysenaar, A., & Schwenk, N. (2004). The hare that hides within: Poems about St. Melangill. 

Parthian. 

Greeves, T., Andrew, S., & Chapman, C. (2016). The three hares a curiosity worth regarding. 

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Griffioen, R. E., Steen, S., Verheggen, T., Enders‐Slegers, M. J., & Cox, R. (2019). Changes in 

behavioural synchrony during dog‐assisted therapy for children with autism spectrum 

disorder and children with down syndrome. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual 

Disabilities, 33(3), 398–408. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12682 

Hoehl, S., Fairhurst, M., & Schirmer, A. (2020). Interactional synchrony: Signals, mechanisms 

and benefits. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(1-2), 5–18. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa024 

Pérez, A., Carreiras, M., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2017). Brain-to-brain entrainment: EEG interbrain 

synchronization while speaking and listening. Scientific Reports, 7(1). 

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people have known for centuries. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved March 28, 2023, from 

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Telyn: a Welsh word for a Celtic harp. 

Random little welcome episode on how I started and where I'm going!

Telyn Tales is a podcast that incorporates intersectional interests including psychology, neuroscience, folklore, ecology, and my personal contemporary takes with background harp accompaniment. 

I'm your host, Sofia Mattson. I act as a scop, an Old English word pronounced kind of like "shop". I can be a scientific scop or a poetic scop. The allure of the harp may either draw you into the subject matter or lure you to sleep. Either way, I hope you enjoy as you get to know my mind's eye.

Tangents include: Dekalb corn, aesthetic of Milwaukee, WI, facts and feelings are one of the same, shoutout UWM Honors College HARPY

~please excuse the mediocre audio quality~

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